Shear Minerals Ltd. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Shear Minerals Ltd. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Shear Minerals Ltd. position in the Metals & Mining Industry.

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About Shear Minerals Ltd.

Shear Minerals Ltd., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties primarily in Canada. The company acquires and explores mineral properties located primarily in the Northwest and Nunavut Territories, Alberta, and Michigan.

Properties

Churchill Diamond Project: The company holds a 58.14% interest in the Churchill Diamond Project. The project consists of mineral rights to approximately 1.0 million acres near the communities of Rankin Inlet and Chesterfield Inlet in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut.

Churchill West Project: The company is exploring the Churchill West project with International Samuel Exploration Corp. (Samuel), Stornoway Diamond Corp. (Stornoway), and BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc.(BHPB) where it holds a 26.45% interest; and Samuel, Stornoway, and BHPB have interests of 48.75%, 18.37%, and 6.43%, respectively, in the diamond rights to the property. The Churchill West project encompasses 397,705 acres located near the community of Rankin Inlet in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, contiguous to the Churchill Diamond Project.

Aylmer Lake West, Northwest Territories: This project operates under a joint venture agreement with Diamondex Resources Ltd. The company holds 62.9% of the project. The property consists of two mineral leases (5,165 acres) located 50 kilometers east of the Diavik Diamond Mine and the diamond district of Lac de Gras and approximately 320 kilometers northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. There are two known kimberlites on the property, including the Nicholas Bay and Nic2 kimberlites.

Afridi Lake, Northwest Territories: This project operates under a joint venture agreement with Samuel, New World Resource Corp. (New World) and Mantle Resources Inc. (Mantle). The company holds a 58.2% interest in the property; and Samuel, New World, and Mantle have 25.4%, 8.2%, and 8.2%, respectively. The Afridi Lake Property consists of 24 mineral claims and 3 mineral leases (56,000 acres) located approximately 40 kilometers east of the Diavik Diamond Mine within the diamond district of Lac de Gras and approximately 320 kilometers northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. In 2008, a total of 12 drill holes totaling 1,741 meters were completed.

Liege, Alberta: The company has acquired a farm-out agreement on a significant land position in north central Alberta for diamond exploration. The property, known as the Liege Diamond Project, consists of 155,000 acres and is located 360 kilometers north of Edmonton, Alberta. The project area lies 80 kilometers east of the Buffalo Head Hills kimberlite cluster and is located along the projected trend of the Peace River Arch.

Sakari, Nunavut: The company holds a 50% interest in approximately 42,000 acres of claims located within the southwest portion of Diamonds North Resources Inc.s Amaruk project in the Franklin Kimberlite District of Nunavut. The Sakari property is located adjacent to the Darby project where nine kimberlites have been discovered. Diamonds North Resources Ltd. retains the other 50% interest in the property and is the operator.

Crystal, Michigan, the U.S.A: The company holds an interest in the Crystal Diamond project in Michigan, the U.S.A.

XYZ, Northwest Territories: This project operates under a joint venture agreement with Hunter Exploration Group (Hunter). The company holds an 80% interest in the project. The XYZ Project consists of 19,000 acres of mineral claims located along the northwest boundary of the Ekati Diamond Mine property and 225 kilometers northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Significant Events

In November 2009, Shear Minerals Ltd. has signed an agreement with Exploratus Ltd. whereby Shear can earn an option in all mineral rights to the Napajut Gold-Diamond Project Nunavut together with related datasets. The Napajut Lake Gold-Diamond Property is located 75 km west-northwest west from the community of Arviat and also 250 km southwest of Shear's Churchill Project, Nunavut.

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SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?

How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?

How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?

How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?

Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?

Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?

Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?

Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?

Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

What composes a threat of substitute products and services?

Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?

What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?

How big is the bargaining power of buyers?

How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

Tangible resources

Financial

Physical

Technological

Organizational

Intangible resources

Human

Innovation and Creativity

Reputation

Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are: